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Build

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

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Verb group 6

Construct 84% connected

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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Construct 84% connected

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Make 84% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Make 84% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Progress 84% connected

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

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Progress 84% connected

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

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Broader term 20

Ameliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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Amend 76% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

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Base 76% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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Better 76% connected

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Body 76% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Deepen 76% connected

To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Establish 76% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Found 76% connected

of Find

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Ground 76% connected

of Grind

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Improve 76% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

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Increase 76% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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Intensify 76% connected

To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Manage 76% connected

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

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Meliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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Oversee 76% connected

To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.

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Superintend 76% connected

To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to oversee with the power of direction; to take care of with authority; to supervise; as, an officer…

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Supervise 76% connected

To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.

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Manner of action 12

Cantilever 76% connected

Same as Cantalever.

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Corduroy 76% connected

A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.

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Erect 76% connected

Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.

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Frame 76% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Groin 76% connected

The snout of a swine.

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Lock 76% connected

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Rear 76% connected

Early; soon.

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Rebuild 76% connected

To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.

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Reconstruct 76% connected

To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.

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Revet 76% connected

To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.

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Wattle 76% connected

A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.

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Narrower term 3

Dumpiness 76% connected

The state of being dumpy.

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Lankiness 76% connected

The condition or quality or being lanky.

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Person 76% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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Derivationally related 10

Builder 74% connected

One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.

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Builder 74% connected

One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.

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Construction 74% connected

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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Construction 74% connected

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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Progress 74% connected

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

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Progress 74% connected

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

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Containing whole 7

Human 70% connected

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human sha…

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Individual 70% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Man 70% connected

A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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Mortal 70% connected

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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Person 70% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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Somebody 70% connected

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Soul 70% connected

Sole.

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Synonym 14

Anatomy 92% connected

The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dis…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Chassis 92% connected

A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

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Construct 92% connected

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Establish 92% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Figure 92% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flesh 92% connected

The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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form 92% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Frame 92% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Habitus 92% connected

Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Make 92% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Physique 92% connected

The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Progress 92% connected

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shape 92% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soma 92% connected

The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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